Tryton News: I Jornadas Tryton in Barcelona - Call for talks
As already announced on the Spanish mailing list, several Spanish companies who provide services around Tryton are organizing the I Jornadas Tryton in Barcelona, which will be held on 23th and 24th May...
View ArticleCaktus Consulting Group: Caktus Internship Fuels a Career Re-Launch
What is it like to be an intern at Caktus? I am finishing up as the spring Django intern (though I didn't actually use any Django), so I'll share my experience.What brought me to this pointAs a...
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Continuum Analytics News: DyND Callables: Speed and Flexibility
Developer BlogPostedThursday, March 24, 2016Ian Henriksen Continuum AnalyticsIntroductionWe've been working hard to improve DyND in a wide variety of ways over the past few months. While there is still...
View ArticleJulien Tayon: Modern Computer Science is obscurantism disguised as science
Recently I decided to get back to the basics and question my use of classes/frameworks.I tried to find a definition of the word framework but weirdly this word is a tautology, no one knows what it is,...
View ArticleTim Golden: Python on the micro:bit — TouchDevelop or the Mu editor?
You may have noticed that the BBC micro:bit has been launched (for the third time, I think). This time, it’s actually being to delivered to schools and teachers have the opportunity to use it with...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: Python 201 – OrderedDict
Python’s collections module has another great subclass of dict known as OrderedDict. As the name implies, this dictionary keeps track of the order of the keys as they are added. If you create a regular...
View ArticleInvesting using Python: K-means clustering for (forex) trading using Python
Continuing SVM clustering I planned to run over all machine learning methods using same two indicator features, and possibly same data, maybe with slight variations. Nothing here is checked in real...
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Evennia: Technical stuff happening
Hi folks, a bit more technical entry this time. These usually go onto the Evennia mailing list but I thought it would be interesting to put it in the dev-blog for once. So, I'm now halfway through the...
View ArticleDavid MacIver: Buy me books!
A thing people sometimes ask me is how they can donate to Hypothesis. Historically the answer has been that they can’t – I’d rather people pay for services, support contracts, etc. If companies want to...
View ArticleWeekly Python StackOverflow Report: (xii) stackoverflow python report
These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2016-03-25 15:48:15 GMTPythonic way to avoid "if x: return x" statements...
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Import Python: ImportPython Issue 65
Word From Our SponsorPython Programmers let companies apply to you, not the other way around. Receive interview offers which include salary and equity information. Companies see each other's offers,...
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Podcast.__init__: Episode 50 - Transcrypt with Jacques de Hooge
Visit our site to listen to past episodes, support the show, join our community, and sign up for our mailing list.SummaryAny programmer who has dealt with a website for any length of time knows that...
View ArticleDavy Wybiral: Teach a computer to play air hockey
I'm always looking for an excuse to build something fun... So it was only a matter of time before I got the idea to create a virtual air hockey game, and then train a neural network to play it.Check it...
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Vasudev Ram: A basic file compare utility in Python
By Vasudev RamWeighing dishes from the island of Thera, Minoan civilization, 2000–1500 BCImage attribution: Norbert NagelRecently, I had written a simple version of the Unix split command in Python. In...
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EuroPython: EuroPython 2016: More than 150 sessions waiting for you
Just in case you didn’t find enough Easter eggs today, we have a whole basket of them waiting for you: the first set of accepted sessions for EuroPython 2016 in Bilbao.EuroPython 2016 Session ListThe...
View ArticleStefan Behnel: EuroPython 2016
The list of accepted talks for EuroPython was published with lots of great talks and topics. I got my tutorial on Cython with NumPy accepted, as well as my talk on Fast Async Code with Cython and...
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Kushal Das: Day 3 of FOSSASIA 2016
Before I write about day 3 of FOSSASIA, I want to mention about the dinner at the end of day 2. Py managed to grab the microphone, and kept speaking to it in her encrypted language. In between I was...
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Filipe Saraiva: Workshop de Software Livre 2016 – call for papers and tools
The call for papers and call for tools for the WSL – Workshop de Software Livre (Workshop on Free Software), the academic conference held togetherwith FISL – Fórum Internacional de Software Livre...
View ArticlePhilip Semanchuk: How To Set Up CentOS to Build Linux Wheels for Python
PEP 513 gives guidelines on how to build broadly compatible Linux platform wheels for Python. The PEP names CentOS 5.11 as the reference OS on which a Python wheel must run if it is to earn the right...
View ArticleWill McGugan: A side-by-side Comparison of Django and Moya
The Django code in this post comes from the official Django tutorial.I've tried not to be disingenuous with the comparison, and I'm only going to compare like with like, so I can show code from both...
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